I am not naturally ... "A bag of wind"; yet ... I mean deliberately and decidedly "to cut" in future all my old ideas on this head.... I don't think modesty "pays." It is a good quality in a family, it is a domestic virtue, it makes a home happy after you have got a home, but it is not potent in getting homes. It is not a money-maker, neither is it lucky in gaining a reputation. I am of the impression that gaseous bodies do better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Have you seen but a bright lily growBefore rude hands have touch'd it?...Have you mark'd but the fall of the snowBefore the soil hath smutch'd it?Have you felt the wool of the beaver,Or swan's down ever?Or have smelt of the bud of the brier,Or the nard in the fire?Or have tasted the bag of the bee?O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice--the e...xhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with eleme...nts of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at... last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »